Under the direction of Lois Lerner, the Federal Election Commission sued the Christian Coalition in the 1990s. She harassed the Christian Coalition for three election cycles. She lost her case. Lerner even asked one conservative during the case if Pat Robertson prayed over him. (Sound familiar?)

These actions landed her at the IRS where she used the same tactics against conservatives and Christians  only on a much larger scale. 500 conservative and Christian groups were illegally targeted by the Obama IRS during her tenure. For twenty-seven months the Obama IRS refused to approve any Tea Party applications for tax-exempt status. At the same time the Obama IRS approved dozens of progressive applications.

Skeletons are literally falling out of the closets now. The media is discovering there are stories here that write themselves and sell newspapers and advertisements. The combination of easy and profitable will be hard to resist even for the uber-liberal press.

He is trying to inject reason into this, and warn us away from the cliff.

No one, and I mean no one, in Washington will push this. Politically you are either beating up a woman or the first black president. The Dems are hoping that Issa follows it right over the edge. Gives them great fodder for the next election cycle.

And while we were looking at this, they are going to pass amnesty. Which will be the end of the conservative movement for a generation (till the Hispanics realize they have been played. Which some already are figuring out).

Rush is right. There is no chance of this turning out well for the GOP. All laws are political these days, and the politics say that little Lerner will get a nice fat promotion for slamming Christians, again.

Totally hard to believe that her counsel did not advise her that if she gave the statement and then invoked the Fifth, that she would/had, in fact, lose/lost her right to invoke the Fifth. I wonder why?

The reason she took the fifth was so she wouldn’t contradict her previous testimony. She knows they are taking depositions Doesn’t know what they are saying. IRS lower employees usually hate the big shots who run the dept with a tyranical fist.
Have no doubt they’ll rat on their superiors

Lerner began her Congressional testimony by reading a self-serving statement, then declared that shed answer no questions. Cong Trey Gowdy objected, insisting that once you start yapping in your own interest, youre not allowed to clam up again.

Trey Gowdy knows more than anyone---we are dealing w/ practiced con artists---the logic of established law does not work w/ these cons. Trey needs to grill Lerner about this:

NAMED FOR DEAR OLD DAD The tax-exempt charity named in honor of their Dad, is run by President Barack Obamas half-brother Malik.

The tax-exempt Obama foundation, fast-tracked by Lerner for IRS tax-exempt status, is based at a Virginia UPS store, according to its website. The organizations IRS filings list another Virginia address that is actually a drug rehab center where the foundation does not appear ever to have been based.

As first reported by The Daily Caller, the foundation was speedily approved for IRS exemption by Lois Lerner, the self-same IRS senior official at the center of the targeting of conservative organizations that have waited over two years to receive tax exempt status. The IRS thoughtfully gave Obama Foundation retroactive fund-raising status.......which it stupidly never applied for.

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The tax-exempt Barack H. Obama Foundation is run by Abongo Roy Malik Obama, the half-brother of Barack Obama. The foundations mission statement is to provide people everywhere with resources to uplift their welfare and living standards in memory of dad---Barack H. Obama: in the region of his birth, Kenya, and beyond. Its guiding principle is the inherent belief that no one can truly enjoy the riches he has reaped if his neighbor suffers....."We seek to elevate the human condition so that everyone can live in dignity and truly enjoy having one another as neighbors.

(same old, same old sap-happy do-goodniks)

Despite raising more than $250,000, the alleged charity doesnt seem to have done much. Its website claims the organization has built a madrassa and was building an imams house as well as some proposed latrines, but there is no other evidence that the nonprofit was working to mitigate social-shortcomings in areas of education and literacy, health and well-being, poverty, and lack of community infrastructure in such basic needs such as water, electricity, shelter and sustenance, as the site says.

Alton Ray Baysden, a former Dept of State employee, allegedly a registered Republican, who helped start the Barack H Obama foundation, declined to comment before seeing copies of a reporters passport and govt ID, along with a description of the articles motivation and slant.

Repeated reporters' phone calls went to the organizations voicemail and were not returned.

Obama's half-brother Malik holds up photo of Obama in Muslim dress taken on a trip to Kenya when Ohaha was about 23-24 yo.

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posted on 05/22/2013 4:53:00 PM PDT
by Liz
(To learn who rules over you, determine who you are not allowed to criticize. Voltaire)

The strategy of painting the IRS as a victim is not a guaranteed win. Not by a long shot.

And the first thing to do is exactly what will win this for the conservative side. And its exactly the opposite of what Rush is doing.

Its called not being afraid.

Rush is a great salesman for the virtues of conservatism. I learned with Bush v Gore in 2000 that Rush doesn't always grasp what is going on in real time. Carefully sorting through FreeRepublic offers insights Rush can't begin to match.

Sarah Hall Ingram became Division Commissioner of the Tax Exempt & Government Entities (TE/GE) Division  the head of the division that included the group that targeted Tea Party groups - at the IRS in 2009, a congressional source told Fox News' Mike Emanuel. She was then assigned to head up the implementation of the Affordable Care Act at the IRS in 2010 after the law was enacted. handles health care law.

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posted on 05/22/2013 5:16:36 PM PDT
by Mygirlsmom
("I am not the President, I just play one after I watch some TV")

Thanks for the ping! Trying to catch up a little bit now. Going to watch the hearings tonight after I get in bed. Things are crazy around here..son’s wedding next weekend...millions of things to do, so please keep me posted. I may not be able to answer much in coming week..but I will be able to read stuff when I get moments from the crazy stuff...lol.

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posted on 05/22/2013 5:21:37 PM PDT
by penelopesire
(TIME FOR OBAMA TO ANSWER FOR BENGHAZI UNDER OATH!!)

No one, and I mean no one, in Washington will push this. Politically you are either beating up a woman or the first black president. The Dems are hoping that Issa follows it right over the edge. Gives them great fodder for the next election cycle....

Rush is right. There is no chance of this turning out well for the GOP. All laws are political these days, and the politics say that little Lerner will get a nice fat promotion for slamming Christians, again.

Do you spend political capital on this, knowing that you have next to no chance of hurting Obama and excellent chances of turning the polls against you, or do you step back and let it wind down? Rush is saying, and I fear he is right, that the latter is the best choice in the long run. Obama’s numbers have shown no effect from this, and neither has there been any mid term poll hit. The majority of the US public don’t care, and are annoyed about the reaction to the scandals.

It isn’t about fear. It is about not attacking a lion with a tooth pick. There is a reason this was released now. The other side chose the timing and method of release. This whole thing is a media driven event, and they have been in control of the narrative. Even the arrest of Rosen on treason charges was a calculated move. When you see what looks like an ambush up ahead, do you charge in or out flank?

Stop and think. They could have sat on this, but chose to release it now. Why? What is their game? Why do this? What is the real target?

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